People are always afraid of making mistakes. But sometimes it’s not bad to make mistakes, and here is why.
At first , mistakes are a clear sign that you are trying new things. It’s always good to new things, because when you are trying new things your are growing. If you never try new things , how can you improve ? How can you create? The simple answer is, “ You can’t .” Look around you, everything you see is the result of someone trying new things.
Another good thing about mistakes is this : when your are making mistakes, you are learning. Consider this： Edison failed 10,000 times before he invented the light bulb. When he was asked how he felt to fail that many times, but rather had learned 10,000 things that didn’t work.
Finally , when you make a mistake, you are that much closer to success. Why? Because you have said what you should say, and you have done what you should do. Every time you make a mistake, you are closer to success. But it doesn’t mean that you can make mistakes without thinking. Instead, when you try new things you have to think them over, so that you can keep away from some unnecessary mistakes.
We shouldn’t spend all our time and money on the only one way , but use them correctly. Because our time and money are limited. (有限的)
There is an old saying, “ If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.” So go bravely and make mistakes. And learn. And grow. And succeed.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案，并将其字母代号填人题前括号内。(共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分)
小题1:If you are making a mistake, that means____.| A．you’re careful | B．you’re kind | | C．you’re growing | D．you know nothing. |
小题2:If you never try new things, you can’t ____.| A．improve | B．create | C．spend | D．A and B |
小题3:After Edison failed 10,000 times, he _____.| A．gave up | B．invented the light bulb | | C．invented the computer | D．invented 10,000 new things |
小题4:When you make a mistake, you are closer to ____.| A．time | B．money | C．success | D．everything |
小题5:What’s the main idea of the passage?| A．Never make mistakes. | | B．You can make mistakes without thinking | | C．Sometimes it’s good to make mistakes. | | D．Making mistakes is terrible |
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小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:C |
试题分析：这篇文章主要讲述了人们不应该怕犯错，犯错会给我们的带来的好处：可以让我们尝试新事物，让我们成长；犯错可以促进我们的学习；犯错让我们离成功更近。
小题1:判断推理题。从文中第二段mistakes are a clear sign that you are trying new things；because when you are trying new things your are growing.犯错误意味着你在尝试新的东西；当你尝试新的事物时你就在成长；从而判断犯错误意味着你在成长，故选C
小题2:细节理解题。从文中第二段If you never try new things , how can you improve ? How can you create? The simple answer is, “ You can’t .”如果你不尝试新事物，你怎么提高？怎么创造？答案是否定的。故选D
小题3:细节理解题。Edison failed 10,000 times before he invented the light bulb。爱迪生在发明白炽灯之前失败了一千次。故选B
小题4:细节理解题。文中第四段Finally , when you make a mistake, you are that much closer to success.最后，当你犯错时，你就更接近成功，故选C
小题5:主旨大意题。从文中的内容可知，这篇文章主要讲述了犯错可能带给我们的好处，故选C |
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试题【People are always afraid of making mistakes. But sometimes it’s not bad to make 】；主要考察你对
人生百味类等知识点的理解。
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When I was young, my father told me that little acts of kindness may give one great happiness, Since then I have tried to help people in .
One hot summer afternoon, I was down the highway to New York when another car suddenly into my lane(车道). My car was in the far right lane, so it ran into the roadside. As a(n) driver, I moved my car quickly and skillfully back onto the highway without causing and accident.
I was with that driver, but I thought that he just did not pay attention to the lane change, and he did not do that on purpose.
The car ran away after cutting me off. Very soon it disappeared from sight. After a while, I came around a curve(弯道) and found the car. The driver was walking along the roadside. He was an elderly man and looked . With no telephone nearby and the nearest services twenty miles away. I decided to and see what the problem was.
The man’s car has a flat tire(瘪胎). Although he had a spare tire, he had nothing to work with. I decided to him. I changed the tire for him and allowed him to sit in my air-conditioned car while I did it. Fifteen minutes later, I the work. I was hot and tired, but I really felt after an act of kindness to the man who had earlier my car ran off the road.
You can really enjoyed great from kindness acts, so always lend your hands to others in trouble.
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| 小题2: | | A．walking | B．riding | C．running | D．driving |
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| 小题3: | | A．fell | B．floated | C．came | D．climbed |
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| 小题4: | | A．active | B．experienced | C．frightened | D．energetic |
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| 小题5: | | A．unhappy | B．satisfied | C．familiar | D．friendly |
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| 小题6: | | A．even | B．certainly | C．almost | D．simply |
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| 小题7: | | A．quickly | B．quietly | C．politely | D．carefully |
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| 小题9: | | A．excited | B．relaxed | C．surprised | D．worried |
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| 小题10: | | A．stay | B．research | C．stop | D．hide |
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| 小题11: | | A．punish | B．train | C．help | D．encourage |
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| 小题12: | | A．began | B．finished | C．took | D．continued |
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| 小题13: | | A．good | B．sorry | C．angry | D．shy |
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| 小题14: | | A．noticed | B．made | C．watched | D．heard |
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| 小题15: | | A．friendship | B．success | C．excitement | D．happiness |
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When I was a foreign teacher in China, every day I taught English to my students and they taught me about China. One day the topic turned to saying “ I love you”. I was shocked to learn that not one of my students has said this to their mothers, nor had their mothers said it to them. “Does your mother love you?” “ Of course,” they answered.
“ How do you know?” was my logical question. They responded that their moms cooked and always told them what they were doing wrong to show their caring. I was stunned. So mom’s cooking and criticizing read out as “I love you”. “Then do you say‘I love you’to her?” They agreed that getting good grades, followed by good jobs would be how they showed their love.
I come from a culture where most people are expressive enough, so I repeated these questions in classes over time. Gradually, I began to get different responses. Some of them had exchanged those sentiments with their moms.
One of my favourite stories of change came from a girl. When she came home from university, her mother met her at the door and hugged her. This had never happened before, but her mom said, “ Now that you have gone, I have more time to myself. I noticed that in some places mothers and children hug each other and decided it was a good idea and that I would begin hugging you.”
In my family we all say “I love you” a lot. While it is true that we often say the words without having great depth of feelings at that moment, it is almost like a blessing we give each other. Those three words carry a world of meaning, even when said as a greeting, but most especially if they are the last words we say to or hear from those we love.
小题1: Chinese people prefer to show love by __________.| A．saying “I love you” | B．cooking | | C．getting good grades | D．doing something helpful |
小题2: The underlined word “stunned” mean________ in Chinese.小题3: In paragraph 4, what’s the real meaning of the mom’s hugging?| A．She is meeting her daughter at the door. | | B．She loves her daughter and misses her. | | C．She is glad that she has more time to herself. | | D．She finds it interesting to hug her daughter. |
小题4: Which of the following statements is RIGHT?| A．Chinese people never show love to their mothers. | | B．Chinese students express love to their mothers by studying hard and trying to get good jobs. | | C．In foreign countries people have great depth of feelings to say “I love you”. | | D．People from different countries will never understand each other. |
小题5: What’s the main idea of the passage?| A．Say “I love you” more to your family. | | B．Say “I love you” a lot to Chinese people. | | C．Say “I love you” as a greeting to others. | | D．Say “I love you” without great depth of feelings. |
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Tom had once worked in a city office in London, but now he was out of work．He had a large family to support, so he often found himself in difficulty．He often visited Mr．White on Sundays, told him about his troubles, and asked for two or three pounds．
Mr．White, a man with a kind heart, found it difficult to refuse to give the money, though he himself was poor．Tom had already received more than thirty pounds from Mr．White, but he always seemed to be in need of some more．
One day, after telling Mr．White a long story of his troubles, Tom asked for five pounds．Mr．White had heard this sort of thing before, but he listened patiently to the end．Then he said,“I understand your difficulties, Tom．I’d like to help you．But I’m not going to give you five pounds this time．I’ll lend you the money, and you can pay me back next time you see me．”
Tom took the money, but he never appeared again．
小题1:Tom was now in difficulties because he ____．| A．worked in a city office and was poorly paid | | B．was poorly paid and had a large family to support | | C．was poorly paid and always spent money carelessly | | D．was out of work and had a large family to support |
小题2:Tom went to Mr．White for help ____．| A．twice a week | B．often on Sundays | | C．always on Sundays | D．whenever he needed money |
小题3:Altogether Tom received from Mr White．| A．at least thirty-five pounds | B．just thirty-five pounds | | C．less than thirty pounds | D．five pounds |
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Much meaning can be carried clearly with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.
Do you have such kind of ? On a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too long. And he finds that he is being looked at, he may feel uncomfortable. It is the same in daily life. If you are looked at for necessary, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel with the person who is looking at you that way. Eyes do speak, right?
Looking too long at someone may seem to be impolite. But sometimes things are . If a man looks at a woman for more than 10 seconds, it may mean that he wishes to attract her attention, to make her understand-that he loves her. When two people are in a conversation, the will look at the listener from time to time, in order to make sure that the listener does pay attention to what he or she is speaking. Lovers will looking at each other or being looked at for long time, to show something that cannot express.
So contact should be done accordion the relationship (关系) between two people and the place where you stay.
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| 小题2: | | A．where | B．before | C．if | D．whether |
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| 小题3: | | A．more than | B．lack of | C．less than | D．kind of |
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| 小题4: | | A．anything | B．something | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题5: | | A．happy | B．angry | C．sad | D．thankful |
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| 小题6: | | A．different | B．same | C．difficult | D．funny |
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| 小题7: | | A．player | B．listener | C．speaker | D．other |
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| 小题8: | | A．practise | B．finish | C．hate | D．enjoy |
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| 小题9: | | A．thoughts | B．words | C．minds | D．ideas |
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For many years , Hawaii has been a magic name to people who like to travel. People on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, in Japan and in America, dream of seeing these beautiful islands in the middle of ocean. Their dreams always include at least on scene of a sunset over the ocean. In the tropical （热带的）lands, the sun drops like a ball of golden fire into the sea. And it drops so quickly that you can almost see it move. The sun leaves behind a glow that lights the skies in the quiet water.
People often have a quiet, peaceful time—perfect for a leisurely walk along the water. This scene is not too different from the dramatic beauty that greeted the first strangers to these islands centuries ago. They were Polynesia people who came from Tahiti in canoes that much bigger than small boats.
They found the beautiful white sand beaches and the waving palm trees, but there were no grand hotels like the ones we see nowadays. The first people came to Hawaii nearly two thousand years ago, but skyscraper hotels were only built in the last 30 years. Now jet airplanes make it possible to fly to Hawaii for a weekend from Tokyo or San Francisco or Los Angeles.
Wherever people come from, they really want to see the original（原始的，最初的） beauty of Hawaii. They want to see the lovely beaches and the mountains called Diamond Head which is almost hidden by the tall hotels.
小题1:Hawaii is a name __________.| A．given by people who like to travel | | B．attracting a lot of travelers | | C．with an interesting story behind it | | D．talked about by both the Japanese and Americans. |
小题2:The most magic thing on these beautiful islands is | A．the tropical plants | | B．a leisurely walk along the beach | | C．the sunset | | D．the quiet water |
小题3:Which of the following does not belong to “the original beauty of Hawaii”| A．White sand beaches | B．Waving palm trees | | C．Tall hotels | D．The Diamond Head Mountain |
小题4:The meaning of the underlined word is ________| A．very beautiful | | B．expensive and comfortable building | | C．low and pleasant building | | D．very tall building |
小题5:The last paragraph suggests _________.| A．The scenery nowadays is different from the original beauty | | B．It is not quite easy to see the original beauty, because some of the scenery is almost hidden by tall hotels | | C．The scenery nowadays is unchanged | | D．It is difficult to see the original beauty because things have completely changed in the last twenty-five years |
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